EASA has deprived us of a privilege tolerated or accepted up to now, to get Skill Tests and assessments of competence carried out by foreign JAR FI(E)'s.
Fcl.1015(c)(2) requires foreign JAR FI(E)'s to be approved (Valid 3 years) by national Caa's and requires to get acquainted with:
"......national administrative procedures, requirements for protection of personal data, liability, accident insurance and fees".
"National administrative procedures" ???? This issue seems more of relevance to the testee than the FI(E).
"..protection of personal data" : Some countries are paranoid about that and will require a disclaimer from the applicant, fair enough
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"..liability...accident insurance..." Here we get to the point the whole of EASA Fcl's seem to have been drafted by lawyers and not pilots, easy to determine just by reading the 1000 + pages of the EEC decree ( The FAA one is 90 pages...).
It looks like this bureaucratic paranoia is geared towards how to cope with potential liability court actions rather than genuine means to promote safety and compatibilty within Europe.
Back to our issue EASA seems again to have defeated its purpose to make our life easier;
This issue will be treated differently according to where we will be:
Denmark:
Briefing of non-danish examiners
UK CAA:
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/srg_lts...sV1_Sept12.pdf
French DGAC:
http://www.developpement-durable.gou..._Examiners.pdf
Italian ENAC:
Enac - Examiners
In Denmark, looks pretty easy, a request to be made for approval by submitting applicant credentials, no fees are stated .
In the UK the applicant must submit his credentials and acknowledge that he has read and understood a briefing, no charge involved (For the moment).
In France the applicant must submit his credentials, take a briefing and be checked out by taking a "Quiz"
Fee: 80 Euro.
In Italy the applicant must submit his credentials: Scanned copy of licence,
medical certificate, examiner's certificate, tax code.
Fill an exhaustive form with a breakdown of all ratings, flight hours, then acknowledge to have read and understood the briefing.
This carries a fee of 265,20 Euros (!!!)
That is what is being imposed upon us, and we seem to have no recourse...
EASA is supposed to take over, what is the point of having national authorities still regulating, perpetuating the negative effects of complications due to e.g. national pride in France and paralysing heavy bureaucracies in southern european countries...EASA was created to do away with this. Or was it ????